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wordS TO KNOW Bahishti Maqbarah— Heavenly graveyard. Graveyard established by the Promised Messiah as. Bai’at— The bai’at is an oath of allegiance taken by Ahmadis as a promise to accept the Promised Messiah as as the Imam of the age and his Khalifah as the rightly guided leader of our community appointed by Allah. Bibi— A respectful title used for women in South Asia. Darul-Masih— Residence of the Promised Messiah as. Dervish of Qadian— The word Dervish means some- one who takes a vow of simplicity, and devotes his life for the sake of Islam. After the partition of In- dia, in October 1947, Hazrat Musleh Ma’ud ra made a plan for some Ahmadis to remain in Qadian to pro- tect the holy places of the Jama’at (such as Bahishti 29